PARENTS, RELATIVES, NEIGHBOURS, OTHERS

PARENTS, RELATIVES, NEIGHBOURS, OTHERS


PARENTS, RELATIVES
Abu Huraira says that a person came to the Prophet  ﷺ and asked who was most deserving of favoured treatment. The Prophet ﷺ said, "Your mother." The man again asked who came next. The Prophet ﷺ again said, "Your mother." On his asking for the third time the Prophet ﷺ again repeated, "Your mother." When the man asked for the fourth time, the Prophet ﷺ said, "Your father and after him your near relatives in order of priority." (Bukhari & Muslim)
Abu Huraira says that the Prophet ﷺ said, "May his nose be put in the dust (be humiliated)." The Prophet ﷺ repeated this thrice. People asked what person was meant. The Prophet ﷺ said that the man who found this parents in old age, one or both of them, and he did not qualify for paradise by serving them. (Muslim)
It is reported from Mughira bin Shoba that the Prophet ﷺ had said, "God has forbidden you ill-treatment of parents, burying daughters alive, greed and miserliness and has disliked for you irrelevant talk, too much questioning and squandering money." (Unanimous)
Abdullah bin Amr says that the Prophet ﷺ had said, "The man who does good to his relatives in return for the good turn they did to him is not perfect in the virtue, but one who joins his relatives when they have him cut off and meets what is their due." (Bukhari)

DAUGHTERS
Abdullah bin Abbas reports that the Prophet ﷺ had said, “And whosoever has fostered his three daughters or three sisters and given them good education and training, treating them with kindness till God makes them independent, by God's Grace he has earned paradise of himself". One of the companions asked what if he had only two. The Prophet ﷺ said, "Even two". Abdullah bin Abbas says that if anyone had asked about only one daughter, the Prophet ﷺ would have given the same good tidings for him also. "Also that if God takes away from anyone of you two of his best things he is also assured of paradise." People asked what those two things were. The Prophet ﷺ said, "His two eyes." (Mishkat quoting from Sharh-us-Sunna)
Abdullah bin Abbas reports that the Prophet ﷺ had said, "If a daughter is born to anyone and he does not bury her alive (as was the custom in the pre-Islamic days) nor considers her inferior and does not gives his sons preference over her, then paradise is assured to him." (Abu Daud) 
Suraqa bin Malik reports that the Prophet ﷺ said, "Shall l indicate to you the best charity?" It is to support the daughter who had been returned to you and she has no other means of support." (Ibn Maja)

ORPHANS, SICK, NEEDY PERSONS
Sahl bin Sa'd reports that the Prophet ﷺ had said, "He and the person who supports the orphans and others in need will be in paradise like this." So saying the Prophet ﷺ pointed to his middle finger and the first finger, keeping a small gap between the two. (Bukhari) 
A'isha says that the Prophet ﷺ had said that angel 
Abu Huraira reports that the Prophet ﷺ had said that on the day of Judgement God will say: "O son of Adam, you did not call on Me when I was ill." He will say, "O my Lord how could I do it as You are the Lord of the world." God will then say, "Such and such of My servant was ill and you did not call on him. Did you not know that if you had gone to see him you would have found Me with him." (Muslim)
Abu Musa Ash'ari reports that the Prophet ﷺ had directed to visit the patients, to feed the hungry and to arrange release of the prisoner. (Bukhari)
Abdullah bin Abbas says on the authority of the Prophet ﷺ that while visiting a patient one should not make noise and should not stay too long." (Mishkat quoting from Razin)
Abdullah bin Umar reports that the Prophet ﷺ had said that whosoever helped his brother in his need, God would help him in his need. (Bukhari & Muslim)

NEIGHBOURS
Abdullah bin Abbas says that he heard the Prophet ﷺ said, "One who takes his full meal while the neighbour close to him remains hungry, is not a believer." (Baihaqi in Shu’ab al-lman)
It is reported from Abu Huraira that the Prophet ﷺ said, "By God, he has no faith, by God he has no faith, by God he has no faith." People asked, "Who has no faith?" The Prophet ﷺ said, "One from whose mischief his neighbour is not safe." (Bukhari & Muslim)
Gabriel continued to impress on him better treatment of neighbours until he was inclined to feel that the neighbour was going to be made an heir to one's property. (Unanimous)
A'isha says that she asked the Prophet ﷺ that of her two neighbours to whom she should send the gift. The Prophet said, "To the neighbour whose door is nearest to yours". (Bukhari)
Abu Huraira reports that a person informed the Prophet ﷺ, "A certain woman offers a lot of Nafl prayers, keeps a lot of Nafl fasts and gives much charity but she gives pain to her neighbours with her tongue." The Prophet said, "She will go to hell". The man again said," It is said about a certain other woman that she keeps very few Nafl fasts, offers very few Nafl prayers and gives very small bits of cheese in charity but she does not give pain to her neighbours with her tongue". The Prophet said, "She will go to heaven." (Mishkat quoting from Ahmad and Baihaqi in Shu’ab al-lman)

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